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  • verb Present participle of deem.

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Examples

  • As for the democrats calling people un-American who disagree with them, it reminds me of Stalin deeming those who disagreed with him to be mentally ill or Hitler labeling his dissenters as enemies of the state.

    GA congressman describes hate mail, Nazi graffiti after protests 2009

  • Second -- and more importantly (as somebody could argue that the DoD had a conflict in deeming them a success) -- the context of the current discussion is to evaluate the "safety" of the EELV for human spaceflight.

    Flip Flopping on EELV Safety - NASA Watch 2008

  • Notwithstanding Mary Wolstoncraft's many sins, much wrong is generally done to her memory in deeming her an utter infidel.

    Archive 2003-05-01 2003

  • It’s that they were dreadfully wrongfor racial reasonsin deeming citizens of Japanese ancestry to be so much more threatening than other citizens, and in visiting on them a program that was so ludicrously overinclusive and so ludicrously burdensome, even in relation to their actual security concerns.

    IsThatLegal? 2003

  • Notwithstanding Mary Wolstoncraft's many sins, much wrong is generally done to her memory in deeming her an utter infidel.

    Women's Sphere of Influence on Civilization (1837) 2003

  • However, since the Nobel Committee has done great honour to the International Red Cross Committee in deeming it worthy of the Peace Prize for 1944, it is appropriate to devote a few minutes to a summary of the work undertaken by the

    International Committee of the Red Cross - Nobel Lecture 1944

  • (Roughly speaking, the argument says that if God does not exist, then we could never be justified in deeming something to be a reason, since in the absence of God, we have no reason to believe in the reliability of our cognitive thought processes as regards arriving at true belief.

    Again, there is absolutely no teleology involved 2007

  • Hillary’s response to Gravel indicated that she believed a designation deeming the Guard to be a terrorist organization must be placed on the Guard before any sanctions could be imposed.

    Who Wants to Play Russian Roulette? Anyone? 2007

  • Hillary’s response to Gravel indicated that she believed a designation deeming the Guard to be a terrorist organization must be placed on the Guard before any sanctions could be imposed.

    Printing: Who Wants to Play Russian Roulette? Anyone? 2007

  • Hillary’s response to Gravel indicated that she believed a designation deeming the Guard to be a terrorist organization must be placed on the Guard before any sanctions could be imposed.

    Who Wants to Play Russian Roulette? Anyone? 2007

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